Category: <span>Campaigns</span>

20’s plenty in residential areas

Love our Streets! Make 20mph the default speed on our residential streets across Hastings and St Leonards where we live, work, shop, play and learn. HOT’s

Posted 13:38 Tuesday, May 24, 2022 In: Campaigns Tags: 20s plenty Action Network Amanda Jobson Green Party speed restriction

ESCC leader rejects call to back windfall tax on Big Oil

Today at County Hall, Lewes, the leader of East Sussex County Council (ESCC) rejected a call to back a windfall tax on Big Oil, as climate campaigners staged a theatrical protest outside demanding that ESCC stop shielding the giant fossil fuel companies that are reaping huge windfall profits from the war in Ukraine. Divest East Sussex writes.

Posted 14:17 Tuesday, May 10, 2022 In: Campaigns Tags: Cllr Keith Glazier Divest East Sussex East Sussex County Council Pension Fund Georgia Taylor Kwasi Kwarteng

May Day marchers demand a pay rise for essential workers

Hastings and District Trades Union Council (HTUC) held its annual May Day march and rally on Sunday 1 May. This year’s slogan was ‘Hastings Demands a Pay Rise’. HOT’s Erica Smith joined the marchers to find out what they want – and why.

Posted 21:31 Sunday, May 1, 2022 In: Campaigns Tags: Erica Smith

26 Hastings’ election candidates sign Climate Pledge

Twenty six candidates for the 5 May local elections in Hastings & St Leonards have signed a pledge backing accelerated climate action, including divesting the East Sussex Pension Fund from fossil fuels. As of 10am on Monday 25 April, 26 candidates from Hastings & St Leonards had signed the ‘ABCD Climate Action Pledge’ created by the South East Climate Alliance (SECA): all of the Green candidates (16), seven Labour candidates, 2 Liberal Democrats and 1 Conservative [1].   Divest East Sussex reports.

Posted 13:48 Monday, Apr 25, 2022 In: Campaigns Tags: António Guterres Divest East Sussex East Sussex Pension Fund South East Climate Alliance

Just Stop Oil – meet the people

Have you heard about Just Stop Oil? Who are they? What do they want? And why are so many of their members prepared to be arrested in support of their goals? Robert Ralph explains what they are all about.

Posted 10:23 Friday, Apr 22, 2022 In: Campaigns Tags: Robert Ralph

‘Pangaea’: a personal response to refugees arriving on our beaches

‘Pangaea’, conceived as a club night of global sounds to raise money for Hastings Supports Refugees (HSR), was Jaen Loftin‘s personal response “to the arrival of traumatised refugees on the beaches where I live, it was such a reality check. Women and children fleeing war and terror arriving here on our beaches”. Pangaea raised not only awareness of this situation, but over £1,200 too. HOT’s Zelly Restorick asked Jaen some questions about the event and Polly Gifford tells us about HSR. All photos: Billy Collins.

Posted 17:58 Friday, Mar 25, 2022 In: Campaigns Tags: Billy Collins DJ Galego Hastings Supports Refugees Jaen Loftin Nana Tsiboe Pangaea Polly Gifford Remi Vibesman YYPPFDs

Wedding protest spotlights Council failure over fossil fuel investments

Yesterday,Tuesday 22 March, climate campaigners from across East Sussex, Brighton and Hove staged a mock wedding between East Sussex County Council (ESCC) and fossil fuels (oil, coal & gas) outside County Hall in Lewes before ESCC’s Full Council meeting. Entited ‘Till Divest Do Us Part’, the theatrical protest – featuring a vicar, a veiled bride, multiple suitors representing the fossil fuel industries, as well as a congregation – was held to highlight ESCC’s ongoing refusal to stop investing the East Sussex Pension Fund in the giant fossil fuel (oil, coal and gas) companies that are driving the climate crisis. Divest East Sussex’s Gabriel Carlyle explains why you should check out your suitors before tying the knot.

Posted 21:48 Wednesday, Mar 23, 2022 In: Campaigns

Last-ditch attempt to turn MP on refugee bill

A vigil was held and letters handed in at the Conservative Party headquarters in St Leonards yesterday in a last-ditch attempt to persuade MP Sally-Ann Hart to reverse her support for the government’s Nationality and Borders bill, which looks likely to come up for a final vote in the Commons next week. Nick Terdre reports.

Posted 15:04 Saturday, Mar 12, 2022 In: Campaigns Tags: Felicity Laurence Nationality and Borders Nick Terdre refugees Sally-Ann Hart